We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「昧地謾天」.
Here’s the idiom 「昧地謾天」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It is a metaphor for concealing the truth against one’s conscience and deceiving others with lies. Also written as “concealing the truth from the earth and deceiving the heaven”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
mèi dì màn tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
mui6 dei6/dei2 maan4 tin1
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